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39th PARLIAMENT, 2nd SESSION

Journals No. 3 Thursday, October 18, 2007 10:00 a.m.

Prayers

Daily Routine Of Business

Introduction of Government Bills

Pursuant to Standing Orders 68(2) and 69(1), on motion of Mr. Nicholson (Minister of Justice), seconded by Ms. Finley (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), Bill C-2, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, was introduced, read the first time, ordered to be printed and ordered for a second reading at the next sitting of the House.

Motions

Pursuant to Standing Order 8(1), the Speaker proposed that Mr. Galipeau (Ottawa—Orléans) be appointed Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole.

Pursuant to Standing Order 8(2), the motion “That Mr. Galipeau (Ottawa—Orléans) be appointed Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole House” was deemed to have been moved and seconded.

The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to.

Presenting Petitions

Pursuant to Standing Order 36, petitions certified correct by the Clerk of Petitions were presented as follows:

— by , one concerning immigration (No. 392-0005);

— by , one concerning immigration (No. 392-0006).

Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Manning (Avalon), seconded by Mr. Lemieux (Parliamentary Secretary for Official Languages), — That the following Address be presented to Her Excellency the Governor General:

To Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Chancellor and Principal Companion of the Order of Canada, Chancellor and Commander of the Order of Military Merit, Chancellor and Commander of the Order of Merit of the Police Forces, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada.

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY:

We, Her Majesty's most loyal and dutiful subjects, the House of Commons of Canada, in Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Excellency for the gracious Speech which Your Excellency has addressed to both Houses of Parliament;

And of the amendment of , seconded by , — That the motion be amended by adding the following:

“and this House calls upon the government to recognize that any shortfall in meeting our 2012 Kyoto commitments would be a result of their decision to kill the previous government’s innovative Project Green plan, followed by 18 months of inaction, and the government must replace its weak approach with real action to create the momentum required for Canada to catch-up in the second phase of Kyoto,

to announce now that the Canadian combat mission in Kandahar will end in February 2009 in order to facilitate a replacement, and begin discussions with NATO and the Government of Afghanistan on what non-combat role Canada can play afterwards to aid in the reconstruction of Afghanistan,

to end 18 months of inaction in the fight against poverty in Canada by building on the good work of the previous Liberal government that funded such initiatives as the Canada Child Tax Benefit, affordable housing, literacy, the Supporting Communities Partnership Initiative (SCPI) and the Working Income Tax Benefit, and

to stop taking for granted the unprecedented strong economy and fiscal success inherited by this government from its predecessor and bring forward proposals to reduce corporate taxes and other measures that will improve the economy of Canada, especially in sectors such as manufacturing and agriculture, and lessen the impact of the government’s egregious mistakes on income trusts and interest deductibility”;

And of the subamendment of , seconded by , — That the amendment be amended in paragraph 1 by replacing the words "of their decision to kill the previous government's innovative Project Green plan, followed by 18 months of inaction," with the following: "of the inaction of the Liberal and Conservative governments"

and by replacing paragraphs 3 and 4 with the following: "to put forward tangible measures to help the workers, businesses and regions affected by the crisis in the forestry and manufacturing sectors and;

to eliminate the federal spending power in areas that fall under the jurisdiction of Quebec and the provinces by ensuring the right to opt out with full financial compensation and with no strings attached from any federal program that encroaches on the jurisdictions of Quebec and the provinces.".

The debate continued.

Statements By Members

Pursuant to Standing Order 31, Members made statements.

Oral Questions

Pursuant to Standing Order 30(5), the House proceeded to Oral Questions.

Tabling of Documents

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Copy of an e-mail from Mr. Arthur Burke, dated October 18, 2007, concerning Rosh Hashana (English text only). — Sessional Paper No. 8530-392-1.

Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Manning (Avalon), seconded by Mr. Lemieux (Parliamentary Secretary for Official Languages), in relation to the Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne;

And of the amendment of , seconded by ;

And of the subamendment of , seconded by .

The debate continued.

At 5:15 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 50(4), the Speaker interrupted the proceedings.

The question was put on the subamendment and it was negatived on the following division:
(Division No. 1 -- Vote n^o 1)
YEAS: 48, NAYS: 240
YEAS -- POUR André Asselin Bachand Barbot Bellavance Bigras Blais Bonsant Bouchard Bourgeois Brunelle Cardin Carrier Crête DeBellefeuille Demers Deschamps Duceppe Faille Freeman Gagnon Gaudet Gravel Guay Guimond Kotto Laforest Laframboise Lalonde Lavallée Lemay Lessard Lévesque Lussier Malo Ménard (Hochelaga) Ménard (Marc-Aurèle-Fortin) Nadeau Ouellet Paquette Perron Picard Plamondon Roy St-Cyr St-Hilaire Thi Lac Vincent Total: -- 48
NAYS -- CONTRE Abbott Ablonczy Albrecht Alghabra Allen Allison Ambrose Anders Anderson Angus Arthur Atamanenko Bagnell Baird Barnes Batters Beaumier Bélanger Bell (Vancouver Island North) Bell (North Vancouver) Bennett Benoit Bernier Bevilacqua Bevington Bezan Black Blackburn Blaikie Blaney Bonin Boshcoff Boucher Breitkreuz Brison Brown (Oakville) Brown (Leeds—Grenville) Brown (Barrie) Bruinooge Byrne Calkins Cannan (Kelowna—Lake Country) Cannis Cannon (Pontiac) Carrie Casey Casson Chamberlain Charlton Chong Chow Christopherson Clement Comartin Comuzzi Cotler Crowder Cullen (Skeena—Bulkley Valley) Cullen (Etobicoke North) Cummins Cuzner D'Amours Davidson Davies Day Del Mastro Devolin Dewar Dhaliwal Dhalla Dion Dosanjh Doyle Dryden Dykstra Easter Emerson Epp Eyking Fast Finley Fitzpatrick Flaherty Fletcher Fry Galipeau Gallant Godfrey Godin Goldring Goodale Goodyear Gourde Grewal Guarnieri Guergis Hanger Harper Harris Harvey Hawn Hearn Hiebert Hill Hinton Holland Hubbard Ignatieff Jaffer Jean Jennings Julian Kadis Kamp (Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission) Karetak-Lindell Karygiannis Keddy (South Shore—St. Margaret's) Keeper Khan Komarnicki Kramp (Prince Edward—Hastings) Lake Lauzon Layton Lebel LeBlanc Lee Lemieux Lukiwski Lunn Lunney MacAulay MacKay (Central Nova) MacKenzie Malhi Maloney Manning Mark Marleau Marston Martin (Winnipeg Centre) Martin (Sault Ste. Marie) Masse Mathyssen Matthews Mayes McCallum McDonough McGuinty McGuire McKay (Scarborough—Guildwood) Menzies Merrifield Miller Mills Minna Moore (Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam) Moore (Fundy Royal) Mulcair Murphy (Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe) Murphy (Charlottetown) Nash Neville Nicholson Norlock O'Connor Obhrai Oda Pacetti Pallister Paradis Patry Pearson Petit Poilievre Prentice Preston Priddy Proulx Rajotte Redman Regan Reid Richardson Ritz Robillard Rodriguez Rota Savage Savoie Scarpaleggia Scheer Schellenberger Scott Sgro Shipley Siksay Silva Simard Simms Skelton Smith Solberg Sorenson St. Amand St. Denis Stanton Stoffer Storseth Strahl Sweet Szabo Temelkovski Thibault (West Nova) Thompson (New Brunswick Southwest) Thompson (Wild Rose) Tilson Toews Tonks Trost Turner Tweed Valley Van Kesteren Van Loan Vellacott Verner Volpe Wallace Wappel Warawa Warkentin Wasylycia-Leis Watson Wilfert Williams Wilson Wrzesnewskyj Yelich Zed Total: -- 240
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS Kenney (Calgary Southeast) Mourani

Private Members' Business

At 5:50 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 30(7), the House proceeded to the consideration of Private Members' Business.

The Order was read for the second reading and reference to the Standing Committee on International Trade of Bill C-411, An Act to amend the Special Import Measures Act (domestic prices).

Ms. Bourgeois (Terrebonne—Blainville), seconded by Mr. Cardin (Sherbrooke), moved, — That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on International Trade.

Debate arose thereon.

Pursuant to Standing Order 93(1), the Order was dropped to the bottom of the order of precedence on the Order Paper.

Returns and Reports Deposited with the Clerk of the House

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(1), papers deposited with the Clerk of the House were laid upon the Table as follows:

— by — Reports of the Department of Western Economic Diversification for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007, pursuant to the Access to Information Act and to the Privacy Act, R.S. 1985, c. A-1 and P-21, sbs. 72(2). — Sessional Paper No. 8561-392-560-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights)

— by — Report of the Canadian Commercial Corporation, together with the Auditor General's Report, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007, pursuant to the Financial Administration Act, R.S. 1985, c. F-11, sbs. 150(1). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-392-88-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on International Trade)

— by — Report of Export Development Canada for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007, pursuant to the Alternative Fuels Act, S.C. 1995, c. 20, s. 8. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-392-662-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development)

— by — Report of the Canadian Commercial Corporation for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007, pursuant to the Alternative Fuels Act, S.C. 1995, c. 20, s. 8. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-392-781-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development)

— by — Report of the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation for the year ended April 30, 2007, pursuant to the Alternative Fuels Act, S.C. 1995, c. 20, s. 8. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-392-769-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development)

— by — Reports of the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation for the year ended April 30, 2007, pursuant to the Access to Information Act and to the Privacy Act, R.S. 1985, c. A-1 and P-21, sbs. 72(2). — Sessional Paper No. 8561-392-672-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights)

— by — Summaries of the Corporate Plan for the period 2007-2008 to 2011-2012 and of the Operating and Capital Budgets for 2007-2008 of the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation, pursuant to the Financial Administration Act, R.S. 1985, c. F-11, sbs. 125(4). — Sessional Paper No. 8562-392-826-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans)

Petitions Filed with the Clerk of the House

Pursuant to Standing Order 36, petitions certified correct by the Clerk of Petitions were filed as follows:

— by , one concerning federal programs (No. 392-0007);

— by , one concerning China (No. 392-0008) and one concerning marriage (No. 392-0009).

Adjournment

At 6:54 p.m., the Speaker adjourned the House until tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).